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(...) I'm going to kinda agree with Geoffrey here. This COULD be illegal, except I don't think Lego will care, really, unless this turns into some sort of lucrative market. The images presented are under Lego's copyright. Lego has asked that no sets (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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G'Day I think the material probably did come from BrickShelf, but the - idea - is a good one. I would like to have a CD of instructions available, just makes things a little easier, maybe TLG could look into something like this. Cheers Oliver Play (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well done.. You out designed the offical designers!! Seriously I would suggest that you get in touch with TLC/TLG officaly on this to see if they could produce a parts/sticker pack for us AFOLS.. (ISTR them syaing they would now be more (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) browsing. Most pages load in 30 sec or less, but the bulk pages, presumably because they have a great many menus, take a very long time to load. Chris (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I just played around a bit with it. It's about 15 seconds to load the menus on my system. There is no cable-modem activity at all while it is happening, but my disk drive goes nuts. So, I think it is entirely governed by how fast your browser (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I looks like some <insert pejorative here> has simply made a CD of BrickShelf. I say take let the eBay and TLC lawyer types growl in his(her?) direction. If that doesn't work, then take the muzzles off and let 'em loose. SRC Nothing (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Christopher Masi wrote in message <3A5211C9.815F6F93@c...ne.edu>... (...) a (...) load. (...) LEGO (...) DOn't think it's just a Mac thing. I'm on a PC running IE 5.5 over a cable modem and it takes about 20-30s for the menus to load on each page. (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It must be a Mac thing. I have been complaining about slow menu loading for a while. Using IE 5 and Netscape 4.7, the bulk pages take about 4 min to load. Apparently, it does not take that long for the menus to load on a PC. Since LEGO doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Ah, great. More computer bigotry. Thanks. Very helpful. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hey, if this 2002 thing works out, you can just build it on their software and order it. (With the exception of minifigs I guess) -- Andrew, Agent 0007 (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I've been testing different browsers on my own web site (trying to implement advice the books give on being compatible--not easy.) Anyway, now I have Mac IE 3, 4, and 5 set up. Only 5 plays well with www.lego.com. It is more tolerable than Netscape (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Guess what? Those S@H menus don't work in IE 4 either. (Time to upgrade?) It turns out, IE 4 can't even be used on Microsoft's website anymore because too many links are implemented as javascript actions instead of, um, links. For instance, it's (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) While I find the site at times somewhat annoying, I don't see THOSE sorts of delays. what browser are you running? Some Mac thing? I am running IE 5.50 on Win 2000 over dialup, mostly. BTW (the menus are Javascript, but we know that (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Yeah, I have to wait too, though my dsl is usually running about 127k :( (if I'm lucky...) I've just learned to tolerate it, not that I think it's good web practice, though we know that nothing good will ever come out of the Official Page... at (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, because of those awful menus, I don't use the website. A real shame. I don't have this problem on some other sites that use menus. I bet it's partly the browser. (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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OK, I've tried to be patient on this but I've had enough. Whenever I go to Shop @ Home and follow a link to a new page, I have to wait for a good solid 30 seconds while my browser displays a message that says "Please wait, menus being loaded." It (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Do you think he/she could have 'mined' the Brickshelf Site? (If they did then I'd check your server VERY carefully..) With the CD on ebay TLG could theroetically close down all sites hosting thier (C) material :-( Lets hope the AFOLS's get him (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Richard Schamus <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G6G36G.1uB@lugnet.com... (...) It doesn't look legal to me - the reason being the prominent LEGO logo displayed with their 'Just Imagine...' trademark on the top, acting like it was (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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It would probably be illegal if it became obvious that the person "auctioning" that particular item was going to make a lot of money doing that. But at $1.30 ea. it doesn't look likely. Of course, TLG could say that this isn't a fair interpretation (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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